In Sunday’s newspaper, I had an article about the 147th Reconnaissance Wing. The Texas Air National Guard unit controls Predator drones in Iraq and Afghanistan from a top-security building at Houston’s Ellington Field. I didn’t have the security clearance to get inside that building, but this video, produced by the Wing’s public affairs staff, offers […]
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal has some explaining to do. The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been ordered to Washington to atone for an incendiary Rolling Stone article in which the general and his aides are quoted deriding Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and other top Obama administration officials. White […]
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By now you’ve probably already heard about the scandal at Arlington National Cemetery: More than 200 unmarked or mismarked graves, missing documentation, and mishandling of remains. If it’s any comfort to Houstonians, Houston National Cemetery is NOT managed by the Army, like Arlington. It is run by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration. […]
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